Facebook is giving up on its standalone Moments photo organiser app more than three years after launching it.
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Researchers claim it is possible to profile people based on the social media activity of their friends, even if the person does not use the platform.
WhatsApp is to limit the number of times users can forward any single message to five in an attempt to stop false information spreading on the platform.
A bug on Twitter exposed the tweets of some Android users who chose to keep their accounts private for more than four years, the social network has revealed.
A Twitter tool that allows users to switch to a reverse chronological timeline has been rolled out to Android users.
YouTube has updated its guidelines to ban prank and dangerous challenge videos.
Reports emerged on Tuesday that Zimbabwe’s government has moved to block citizens’ access to social media – and, in some instances, access to the Internet altogether – as violent protests spread across the troubled Southern African nation.
Allen Zhang stepped on stage to wrap up a long day of presentations at a Tencent Holdings conference. Four hours later, the WeChat founder had methodically torn apart his own brainchild before mapping out the next act for China’s premier super-app.
The Chinese Internet giant seems set on building out the long tail, maximising value beyond mainstream usage of its core products.
People over-dependent on social media sites display poor decision making in much the same way as drug addicts, research suggests.